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agroves

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Oil Absorbtion rate
« on: January 28, 2008, 04:25:59 PM »
I tossed my BWB in practice today.  It was me, the wife, and the kid.  I've never seen a ball absorb oil so quickly.  I could hardly tell where my track was.  So far, I've got about 4 games on my Bite.  I'm gonna keep an eye on it to see how the reaction changes.

My wife's Raid loss some reaction after about 2 months.  I resurfaced and de oiled it and was surprised at the amount of oil that came out of the ball.  It seems to be back, she shot 741 with it tonight, but two months of use seems awfully low.

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revTrex

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Re: Oil Absorbtion rate
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2008, 12:29:37 AM »
Joey Cerar and I compared the Gravity Shift's coverstock (latest Storm cover) to the coverstocks on other balls, including other Storm Balls. Are results were mostly the same. I have here listed the balls compared, in order of how long they took to absorb oil (fastest at top, slowest at bottom):

1) Black Widow
2) Dead Flush
3) Heist
4) Twisted Fury
5) Insane LevRG
6) Pluto
7) SD-73
8) Nighthawk Pearl
9) Gravity Shift
10) Rapid Fire

Note that the Rapid Fire (R2S) still took longer than the Gravity (new R2X).

Another thing to note, though, was that no ball took longer than approximately 2-2.5 minutes to absorb all oil. The differences were slight -- a BW absorbed most of the oil within 20-35 seconds, a Rapid Fire in 2+ minutes. What difference that makes during league must be minimal -- oil is still getting in the ball by the time it's your shot again.

Just my .02.
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